The Prometheus deception
by Robert Ludlum · first published 2000
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The Prometheus Deception is a spy fiction thriller novel written in 2000 by Robert Ludlum about an agent in an ultraclandestine agency known only as the Directorate named Nick Bryson, alias Jonas Barett, alias Jonathan Coleridge, alias The Technician, who is thrown into a fight between an organization he knows as Prometheus and his former employers at the Directorate
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Robert Ludlum's "The Prometheus Deception" has so many plot twists...my favorite of his. Also Le Carre's "The Russia House" is my favorite, and has such great prose. More of a love story maybe, but the subtexts are really a thing of beauty in…
on “John le Carré's 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' is the ultimate spy novel” ↗It has been a plot device in several video games and films over the last few decades. There was an eponymous (and quite bad) movie made in 2005. Also Robert Ludlum used it in his novel The Prometheus Deception So, it is not really that obscure either. edit: I just found a New Scientist article from 1995 which seems to take the idea somewhat seriously. https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg14619750-300-cherry-r...
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